Top military official and Jaffna commander Maj. Gen. G. A. Chandrasiri admitted that a handful in the Sri Lankan security forces could be involved in the abductions taking place in Jaffna.
General Chandasiri disclosed this when he was interviewed by New York Times reporter Somini Sengupta.
Her news feature published on Friday New York Times front page as “Sri Lanka’s Scars Trace Lines of War Without End.”
According to New York Times, General Chandrasiri, in an interview, first said the abductions were the work of pro-government Tamil paramilitary groups who, as he put it, try to “eliminate” Tamil Tiger operatives. He later acknowledged that some people in the security forces could also be involved. “I’m not saying all our people are clean,” he said. “Our duty is to catch them and punish them.”
“Sri Lanka’s Scars Trace Lines of War Without End” mainly targeted on abductions in Jaffna.
The news item also stated that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa disclosed to the writer that their main target is to eliminate the LTTE leader.
“Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s influential defense secretary says the military is under instructions to eliminate the rebel leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and eradicate his organization once and for all.
“That’s our main aim, to destroy the leadership,” Mr. Rajapaksa said in an interview in May. The job, he said, would take two to three years”.
(http://www.nation.lk/2007/06/17/news15.htm)
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